This Life Quotes - Page 5

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Henry A. Kissinger

Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

Life, Beauty, Dream

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And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Life, You Like It, Hours

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 26

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams

Life, Positive, Travel

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Philip James Bailey

Life, Gratitude, Heart

Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.80

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Inspirational, Funny, Success

"Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Erma Bombeck

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Hope, Latin

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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Life can only be understood backwards.

Mackenzie Astin

Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

"Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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Begin doing what you want to do now.

Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Procrastination

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We should count time by heart-throbs.

James Martineau

Time, Heart, Should

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Live your life to the fullest.

Shakira

Life, Birthday, Beauty

"I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love, Life, Positive

The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Life, Graduation, Wise

"Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Inspirational, Life, Positive

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love, Life, Happiness

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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Life, Family

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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